Tagged 50th anniversary

Is it time to get excited? Or is this snap of Noel Clarke and Matt Smith simply the result of two Doctor Who actors out on the town in Cardiff on the same night on the run up to Christmas? The Mickey Smith actor – who first appeared in Rose in 2005 and was last…

Matt Smith is excited about the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode, despite not yet having read Steven Moffat’s script. Speaking to the BBC’s Newsbeat (a Radio One news bulletin with carefully formatted items for easy digestion by “yoof”/musically undiscerning listeners) Matt said that he expects to see a script in the New Year. Could 2013…

All Doctor Who fans should already know that The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit director Peter Jackson is one of us. Among his Whovian credentials is casting Sylvester McCoy as Radagast the Brown in the latest trilogy of movies set in Middle Earth. McCoy also screen tested for Bilbo Baggins in The Lord…

Speaking at the recent press screening of The Snowmen, Doctor Who writer and executive producer Steven Moffat hinted that the show’s 50th anniversary in 2013 will be something to look forward to – and look back on. Naturally The Grand Moff wasn’t giving anything away, but we can at least get an idea of the…

We’ve all been waiting for the announcement so we can start to plan for 2013 and the massive Doctor Who celebrations that’ll be taking place and finally, our patience has been rewarded: Doctor Who is coming back, confirmed in the newest edition of the official Doctor Who Magazine! Oh dear, was that a bit of…

Christmas? Pah! Christmas is so last summer to Doctor Who head honcho Steven Moffat. While sitting down for an exclusive chat with SFX he let slip a few details about next year; perhaps the most important year for Doctor Who since its inception. While only talking in the briefest of terms, if you want to…

In the on-going saga of ‘should he stay or should he go’ there’s been one potential victim from the fallout that we’ve not considered; it’s not Steven Moffat, it’s not us the fans, no, it’s Matt Smith’s dear old mum! Matt’s not ‘keeping mum’ anymore, no; speaking to Bang Showbiz (via The List) he’s…